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• Horses belong on farms, not pulling carriages in Victoria: City Councillor says

  11-03-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  Horse-drawn carriages have no place in an urban environment such as downtown Victoria and should be phased out, says Coun. Ben Isitt.
  “I don’t think horse-drawn carriage operations are an appropriate use of animals for commercial purposes — essentially for entertainment,” Isitt said, while discussing bylaw amendments that would require operators to clearly identify horses and operators.
  Isitt said the changes just “scratch the surface” in terms of what&rs
  
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• Why is so much parking clearance needed around hydrants? It’s not

  11-03-2018 23:55 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s engineers and fire chiefs are offering a partial solution to the parking shortage that’s particularly affecting Surrey and Coquitlam, where increased densification in some neighbourhoods means not enough room for all the extra cars.
  They say the answer to creating several hundred additional on-street parking spots is hiding in plain sight: By cutting the no-parking clearance around hydrants in half, there would be room for more cars on streets.
  The city engineers, t
  
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• Richmond RCMP investigating ‘suspicious’ death of man found in Fraser River

  11-03-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  The man in his early 70s was found in the water off Dyke Road, close to London Heritage Farm.
  
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• Richmond man's death 'suspicious' after he was pulled from water in Steveston

  11-03-2018 23:21 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond Mounties are investigating after the death of a man found in the water at Steveston.
  Just before 8 a.m. on Saturday, officers were called to the 7000-block Dyke Road, near London Landing, for a report of a man in the water.
  The male, a Richmond resident in his 70s, was taken out of the Fraser River and given first aid before he was transported to hospital. He later died.
  Richmond RCMP say the circumstances surrounding the man’s death are suspicious. He wasn’t known to police
  
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• No injuries after Sunday morning shooting in Surrey's Newton area

  11-03-2018 23:16 via vancouversun.com
  Police are investigating after several shots were fired Sunday morning in a Surrey neighbourhood.
  According to Surrey RCMP’s Sgt. David MacDonald, the call in around 10:50 a.m. of possible shots fired in the 6800-block 121st Street in Newton.
  “On police arrival, it was determined that several shots had been fired from a moving vehicle,” MacDonald told Postmedia. “The vehicle fled the area and there are no reported injuries or victims.”
  Investigators were on scene Su
  
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• Rebels youngster Vujisic comes with an old soul

  11-03-2018 23:13 via theprovince.com
  Probably a small handful of the 4,000 or so at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday night could tell you about George Mikan, and one of them just happened to be the Burnaby South Rebels’ towering Grade 10 centre.
  “I watch a ton of old-school tape, all the way back to George Mikan, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,” the 6-foot-9 Sasha Vujisic said after helping the No. 8-seeded Rebels beat the No. 6 Semiahmoo Totems 80-72 for the quad-A boys basketball provin
  
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• Vancouver residents look to stop city from building new bike path through Kitsilano Beach Park

  11-03-2018 22:56 via globalnews.ca
  The proposed route would cut through sections of green space within the park, which city staff says would reduce conflicts with pedestrians.
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Demko’s looming shadow grows amid ongoing crease concerns

  11-03-2018 22:56 via theprovince.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — Thatcher Demko isn’t here. It just seems like he is. Not physically, but certainly in the consciousness of the Canucks.
  The latest goaltender of the future for the NHL club is becoming a front-burner fascination because of what hasn’t happened in the crease — neither Jacob Markstrom nor Anders Nilsson looking like a bonafide, no-doubt starter — and another slow slog toward an off-season of franchise navel-gazing.
  It’s why recalling Demko from
  
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• ‘We’re hopeful’: Family and friends of missing B.C. climber in Alaska

  11-03-2018 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  "They're both really, really experienced climbers. They've been climbing their whole lives."
  
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• Shots fired in altercation in Surrey, B.C. neighbourhood

  11-03-2018 22:21 via globalnews.ca
  Investigators arrived to find nothing but piles of shell casings littering the street, which is near a popular park.
  
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• University of Victoria student given temporary medication reprieve by U.S. drug company

  11-03-2018 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A University of Victoria student fighting for the province to pay for an expensive, but life-enhancing, drug to treat her cystic fibrosis has received compassionate coverage from the drug’s manufacturer.
  Lilia Zaharieva was on her last week’s supply of Orkambi, a $250,000-a-year medication that aims to treat a rare strain of cystic fibrosis called Double Delta F508, when she found out the American pharmaceutical company Vertex would give her the drug free o
  
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• Outside-of-B.C. owners push back against proposed speculation tax

  11-03-2018 21:31 via vancouversun.com
  Cindy Meston was born and grew up in Abbotsford and Vancouver, and bought her downtown Vancouver condo 19 years ago.
  She estimates she uses it for about five months a year when she returns from Austin, Texas, where she lives and works as a professor. Three months in the summer. One month at Christmas. Another during spring break.
  And there begins her reasoning, and a range of others as well, against what the B.C. NDP government is proposing with its so-called speculation tax.
  They each have vary
  
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• Ronning, Roman expected to return to Giants line-up for Tri-City visit

  11-03-2018 21:23 via theprovince.com
  Trent Miner stops Jaret Anderson-Dolan in the shootout to help preserve a Giants’ victory over the Chiefs on Saturday.
  Vancouver Giants general manager Glen Hanlon stated via text this morning that both Milos Roman and Ty Ronning should be in the line-up for his team’s visit tonight (5:05 p.m., TSN 1410) to the Tri-City Americans.
  Roman, a centre, returned to action for Friday’s 6-2 loss in Tri-City from an ankle injury that had him on the sidelines for the previous 23 games. H
  
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• Aboriginals and whites leaving Metro Vancouver

  11-03-2018 21:11 via vancouversun.com
  Aboriginals and whites are leaving Metro Vancouver for other regions of B.C., particularly to live in the Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and the Okanagan, according to Statistics Canada.
  A net total of 9,345 whites and 460 Indigenous people left Metro for other parts of the province in the one-year period ending July, 2016, according to newly released Statistics Canada data.
  Two other demographic groups that are tending to say goodbye to Metro Vancouver are those who are born in Canada and thos
  
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• Council to vote on bylaw requiring electric vehicle charging points

  11-03-2018 21:04 via vancouversun.com
  City council will vote this week on a bylaw amendment that would require all parking spots in new condos be equipped for electric vehicle charging.
  If approved, developers will be required to install an electric vehicle (EV) charging point at each residential parking spot in a new building. The requirement would not extend to visitor parking.
  Currently, the city requires at least 20 per cent of parking spots in new developments be equipped with EV charging infrastructure.
  “Our goal is to b
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Can Bo Horvat find the net without his running mate, Brock Boeser?

  11-03-2018 20:05 via theprovince.com
  A fan reacts as Vancouver Canucks’ Bo Horvat skates past the bench after celebrating his goal against the Boston Bruins during the first period of game at Rogers Arena in February.
  Vancouver Canucks vs. Phoenix Coyotes
  6 p.m. today, Gila River Arena (SNP, Sportsnet 650 AM)
  THE BIG MATCHUP
  Bo Horvat vs. the Coyotes’ D
  Everyone knows the Vancouver Canucks goal-scoring got much harder without Brock Boeser. But no player is going to miss him more than Bo Horvat.
  The Canucks top cent
  
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• String of suspicious fires in Armstrong

  11-03-2018 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  Residents in a quiet Armstrong neighbourhood are worried after fire crews have been called to the same block three times in two days.
  
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• No injuries following garage fire near Cambie and 17th on Sunday

  11-03-2018 19:24 via vancouversun.com
  There are no injuries following a fire in Vancouver on Sunday morning near Cambie Street and West 17th Avenue.
  The fire was located in the 400 block of West 17th Avenue, just east of Yukon Street.
  Working fire 400blk West 17th. #vanworkingfire pic.twitter.com/luX3SIWh1J
  — Vancouver Fire (@VanFireRescue) March 11, 2018According to Vancouver Fire and Rescue, the blaze was reported around 9 a.m. and knocked down just over an hour later. A total of seven fire crews responded to the fire, which
  
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• With a Rebel yell: Enigmatic Burnaby South captures quad-A boys hoops title

  11-03-2018 18:39 via theprovince.com
  Burnaby South beat the No. 6 Semiahmoo Totems 80-72 Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre.
  The Burnaby South Rebels were underdogs with an asterisk.
  They were the No. 8 seeds for the quad-A boys basketball provincial championships this past week. They lost 90-66 to the triple-A Byrne Creek Bulldogs in their league finale a month ago and, with their season on the line, they defeated the Kitsilano Blue Demons 80-66 two weeks ago to land the third and final berth out of the Lower Mainland zon
  
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• Ask an Expert: Claire’s Travel Tips

  11-03-2018 18:31 via globalnews.ca
  Claire Newell has the latest advisory for plus she takes viewers calls offering travel advice.
  
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• Cupcake Frosting Masterclass

  11-03-2018 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  Tessa Sam, author of Sweet Bake Shop, shares her ultimate cupcake frosting masterclass
  
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• LIVE: 2018 Canada Sevens day two

  11-03-2018 18:26 via theprovince.com
  Is there any way to describe day one as having been a thriller? A great disappointment for Canada, perhaps.
  After their 47-5 thumping of Uruguay, it’s hard to understate how confident the Canadians were feeling that they’d done enough to qualify for the cup round on Sunday.
  But Australia had different ideas and somehow found a way to come back against the USA, winning 31-21 in the end.
  So, here we are, on Sunday, with Canada playing the first game of the day against Scotland, rather
  
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• Vancouver police searching for mother in alleged parental abduction

  11-03-2018 17:38 via vancouversun.com
  Police are searching for a Vancouver woman who has allegedly abducted her own son contrary to a court custody order.
  According to Vancouver police, Shawana Chaudhary has allegedly taken her 9-year-old son, Emerson Cusworth, and may be travelling with him and her six-year-old daughter.
  Police say there are signs Chaudhary “made plans to be away from home for an extended period” and is likely to be in the company of her two children and one or two dogs. Police do not believe that eithe
  
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• Vancouver weather: Sun across the region to welcome time change

  11-03-2018 17:03 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: March 11, 2018 – Sunday’s weather is set to be sunny and clear so if you’re wanting to enjoy the weather, today’s the day. The sun will stick around on Monday but after that, it will be a few days of rain before sun returns on Friday.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Mainly sunny with temperatures of 12 degrees, 16 inland.
  Tonight: Clear with a low of plus 4.
  Tomorrow: Sunny with a high of 13, 19 inland. Clouds to return in the evening, with a low of plus 5
  
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• Report recommends city kick in $200k for two mass bike rides this summer

  11-03-2018 15:00
  
  City staff are recommending council approve a grant worth up to $200,000 in funding an in-kind services so two organizations can pull off family-friendly mass bike rides for a second year this summer.
  
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• City wants all new residential buildings equipped with electric vehicle charging stations

  11-03-2018 15:00
  
  City council votes on a staff report next week that, if approved, will see Vancouver become one of the first cities in the world require new residential buildings to be 100 per cent electric vehicle ready.
  
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• Vancouver Police search for missing boy in alleged parental abduction

  11-03-2018 14:35 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver Police are looking for a nine-year-old boy and his mother in an alleged parental abduction.
  
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• Letters, March 12: ICBC fine print concerning which drivers are ‘at fault’ will be key

  11-03-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  The key to reducing vehicle insurance rates is to target “bad drivers” and make them pay significantly more than good drivers. Trouble is, no one has yet defined what a bad driver is.Is it an accident-free, excessive speeder? Is it the Sunday driver type who has multiple fender benders with no serious accidents? Or is it both?
  A more immediate concern for me is the use of the undefined term “at-fault driver,” in the all-but-enacted policies announced by the NDP provincial
  
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• Diver reunites long-lost purse with Victoria woman after finding under White Rock pier

  11-03-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  A woman and her purse were reunited after eight months apart thanks to an Abbotsford scuba diver who found it beneath the White Rock pier.
  It’s not the first time Mike Bertness has pulled up treasure from the deep. He estimates he’s found five or six other purses and wallets — not to mention a pair of Gucci sunglasses — since he began diving eight years ago.
  “I always seem to find interesting stuff,” he said Thursday. “It’s remarkable what gets los
  
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• Mike Smyth: As legal pot looms, First Nations seek a piece of the action

  11-03-2018 11:00 via theprovince.com
  Near the historic native village of Kitwancool in northern B.C., the hereditary chief of the Gitanyow frog clan has his eye on an old logging site that could be the perfect place to grow a new cash crop.
  “It’s already serviced with a power supply,” said Will Marsden. “We see an opportunity for our people to be employed in sustainable jobs in our traditional territories.”
  Those jobs would be in the legal marijuana trade, coming soon to British Columbia and the rest o
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Much love for Bill, Shaq, Dice and Ice

  11-03-2018 07:00 via theprovince.com
  Rolling with the Canucks
  While filling seats at Rogers Arena has been more of a challenge this National Hockey League season for the Vancouver Canucks’ brass, selling tickets to the team’s annual Dice and Ice fundraiser was much easier.
  Once again hockey fans quickly snapped up every ticket to attend the team’s off-ice charity event, sponsored by Scotiabank. Held at Parq Vancouver, the ballroom foyer was transformed into a Vegas-style house of cards — complete with blackj
  
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• Hilary Statton: Paying a living wage makes business sense

  11-03-2018 05:27 via vancouversun.com
  The provincial government’s recent announcement that it will gradually raise British Columbia’s minimum wage to $15.20 by 2021 was, understandably, met with mixed feelings. The B.C. Federation of Labour (BC Fed) wants a shorter time span, while some businesses believe the hikes will undermine profitability and threaten jobs.
  What’s not in dispute is the need for workers in B.C. to earn wages they can live on, and for Metro Vancouver that’s currently a minimum of $20.62 an
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Mar 10

  11-03-2018 05:14 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 for Saturday, March 10, 2018. For the latest news and video, go to globalnews.ca/bc.
  
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• Recap: Day 1 of the 2018 Canada 7s a thriller

  11-03-2018 05:13 via theprovince.com
  Good morning folks! It’s the third edition of the Canada Sevens.
  The action gets going today at 9:30 a.m. with a barn burner: New Zealand vs. Scotland.
  The gates have just opened and fans are starting to file in. Have to say the guys dressed as LMFAO that I spotted on the SkyTrain on my way in get top marks so far for dedication to fandom.
  I’ll be back in a little bit to set things up, but first…coffee!
  Oh, and the day’s schedule (everything is streamed live at cbcsports
  
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• Dr. Diane McIntosh: The B.C. Therapeutics Initiative twists the facts

  11-03-2018 05:00 via theprovince.com
  “Alternative facts” are not just a problem in politics. They are also a dangerous issue in medicine. The false association between vaccines and autism, for instance, has resulted in a resurgence of nearly eradicated, deadly diseases around the world. 
  B.C.’s doctors and pharmacists must be on the lookout for alternative facts now that the NDP provincial government has restored taxpayer funding of the Therapeutics Initiative, which claims to provide “evidence-bas
  
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• Whitecaps 2, Houston 1: Caps break through for first win in Houston

  11-03-2018 04:59 via theprovince.com
  It was a day of milestones, revenge and records for the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  The Caps strolled into Houston on Saturday, and after enduring wave after wave of crushing attacks of orange, staggered out with a satisfying 2-1 victory, their first-ever in the city.
  Kei Kamara, in his 300th career MLS game, scored his 100th goal.
  Brek Shea scored the game-winner, the second straight year the Texas native has scored against the Dynamo in Houston, though last year’s result was a 2-1 Houston win.
  
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• Jason Botchford: No point dwelling on a Canucks season’s worth of ‘what ifs’

  11-03-2018 04:51 via theprovince.com
  When the Vancouver Canucks season ends, it’s going to be hard for head coach Travis Green to avoid being haunted all summer by two words: What if?
  No one fully understood it at the time, but Bo Horvat’s injury on December 5 had the same effect as flying a paper airplane into a raging bonfire.
  Since, the Canucks have played 40 games, one shy of half a season. They’ve won 11 of them, collecting 27 points — the fewest in the NHL.
  That 55-point pace over an entire season
  
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• Supporters of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion hold counter-rally

  11-03-2018 04:46 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds attend a rally in support of the energy project, arguing it’s in the national interest. Paul Johnson reports.
  
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• Tips to survive daylight savings time

  11-03-2018 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• The victim of a targeted shooting in Surrey is identified

  11-03-2018 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  Police say a man killed in targeted shooting in Newton was well known to them.
  
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• Rescuers involved in a dramatic rescue off Vancouver Island are honoured

  11-03-2018 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  Those who came to the rescue of three people who were tossed into the water and a little girl who was trapped on a fishing boat that was spinning out of control are recognized for their bravery. Julia Foy has the story.
  
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• A special homecoming for gold medalist Cassie Sharpe

  11-03-2018 04:31 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver Island’s Cassie Sharpe returns to Mount Washington, where her ski career all began, for a celebration. Kristen Robinson reports.
  
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• Thousands opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion make the voices heard

  11-03-2018 04:28 via globalnews.ca
  A protest against the controversial pipeline project draws a massive crowd. Nadia Stewart reports.
  
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• RCMP investigate a death in Victoria

  11-03-2018 04:28 via globalnews.ca
  Police tape off a Victoria neighbourhood after a man is found dead.
  
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• Deep divide between anti- and pro-pipeline rallies in Metro Vancouver

  11-03-2018 04:13 via vancouversun.com
  In Burnaby, thousands warned the Trans Mountain expansion would destroy the environment. In Vancouver, hundreds said blocking the pipeline would destroy the economy.
  More than 5,000 people gathered at the Lake City Way SkyTrain station in Burnaby on Saturday morning, where First Nations leaders spoke before elders from across Canada led the march up Burnaby Mountain. 
  ‘‘Our spiritual leaders today are going to claim back Burnaby Mountain,’’ Reuben George, of the Nort
  
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• "Seamless" shopping will have huge impact on jobs, social contact

  11-03-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  In the future of retail, it is likely that bricks-and-mortar stores and online commerce will merge into a seamless and convenient entity, says Vancouver tech entrepreneur Igor Faletski. 
  As CEO of the Vancouver-based online-commerce platform Mobify, Faletski has had a front-row view of the trend toward using technology to create a “frictionless transaction” that maximizes convenience for consumers while minimizing the amount of time they spend waiting in line.
  “The days of
  
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• Major-crime unit called to incident in Victoria

  11-03-2018 02:27 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit has been called in to investigate a “serious incident” on Hillside Avenue in Victoria.
  Victoria Police cordoned off the 1400-block between Belmont Avenue and Gosworth Road and warned that there will be traffic disruptions for the rest of the day.
  Three forensics officers in white suits were scanning the pavement in the middle of Hillside, while uniformed officers searched the grass outside an apartment at the corner of Hillside and Gos
  
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• Fire breaks out at home on Cambie St. in Vancouver

  11-03-2018 01:53 via globalnews.ca
  No word on what started the fire, but it appears to have damaged a vacant house.
  
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• Audain Art Museum's new director sets his sights high

  11-03-2018 01:37
  
  Curtis Collins says Whistler museum has what it takes to earn international respect
  
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• Vancouver police search for parolee convicted of hostage-taking, and a sex offender

  11-03-2018 00:53
  
  Canada-wide arrest warrant issued for Kevin Jerome Holden Porter
  
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