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• Can B.C. grow LNG and meet the Greens' climate action ultimatum?

  23-03-2018 23:58 via vancouversun.com
  A thriving liquid natural gas industry in B.C. would require a 50-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from every other sector of the economy in order to meet the province’s 2030 climate goals, according to Green party leader Andrew Weaver.
  “Emissions would have to be cut, not just by industry, but in every part of the economy,” said Weaver in a radio interview. “I do not believe that is possible.”
  LNG Canada is proposing to build a $40-billion LNG pipelin
  
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• Sense of inevitability around arrest of MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart at Kinder Morgan protest

  23-03-2018 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no surprise that B.C. MPs Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart got themselves arrested Friday at the gate of the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby on Friday.
  Indeed, it was almost inevitable. There was “almost an expectation” that the pair of pipeline opponents had to take decisive action, said Max Cameron, a UBC political scientist. “The province has provided a kind of political cover for this with its opposition.”
  May, the national Green leader, and Stewart, th
  
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• Quest University holds off on hiring for Indigenous studies amid students’ concerns

  23-03-2018 23:40
  
  Non-Aboriginal candidates considered for first faculty position in school’s Indigenous studies program.
  
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• Within 75 years, Vancouver’s waterfront homes ‘will probably be starting to flood’: report

  23-03-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  "Basically, if you live near the waterfront, within 75 years or so, your homes will probably be starting to flood."
  
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• Will protest escalate in Kinder Morgan pipeline fight?

  23-03-2018 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  On Wednesday, a day that began cool and overcast, a protest slowly unfolded on Burnaby Mountain against Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
  Organized, peaceful and scripted, it resulted two hours later in the arrest of a dozen people by more than three dozen RCMP officers.
  The protesters — including a pair of retired opera singers — were arrested because they violated a B.C. Supreme Court order not to block the gates into Kinder Morgan’s ta
  
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• Childcare advocates disagree with Fraser Institute’s report on subsidized daycare

  23-03-2018 22:05
  
  Supporters of B.C.’s move toward universal daycare defended the plan this week as one group said the government should look at a more targeted approach.
  
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• Ismaili community exceeds pledged one million hours of service in just over six months

  23-03-2018 22:03 via vancouversun.com
  The Shia Ismaili Muslim community volunteered a total of 1,127,549 hours of service across Canada in just over six months.
  Volunteers from Metro Vancouver provided “a total of 193,711 service hours in the Lower Mainland alone,” according to a news release. The community provided voluntary services in partnership with the Surrey Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Club, the YWCA and Habitat for Humanity among others.
  The “one million hours” pledge is the cornerstone of the Ismai
  
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• Green Party leader Elizabeth May undeterred after arrest at anti-pipeline protest

  23-03-2018 22:01
  The Federal Green Party leader says she's "keeping her word" to stand in solidarity with First Nations
  
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• Man with gunshot wound drove into ditch on Chilliwack River Road: RCMP

  23-03-2018 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  Police believe the shooting was targeted.
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Tiger makes the PGA Tour must-watch TV

  23-03-2018 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It’s been another bullish week for Tiger Woods, who turned in his second consecutive top-five finish — something he hasn’t done in more than five years — and made the PGA Tour must-watch TV for the second straight Sunday. That is gold for CBS and the Masters, the first major of the year next month in Augusta, Georgia.
  Meanwhile, Jennifer Jones and her Winnipeg rink are a perfect 10-and-0 going into the weekend at the Ford World Women’s Curling Cham
  
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• Red card to Vancouver Whitecap Kendall Waston rescinded by league

  23-03-2018 21:31 via theprovince.com
  The red card issued to Vancouver Whitecaps centreback Kendall Waston in last Saturday’s MLS game against Atlanta FC has been rescinded upon appeal.
  The Costa Rican international was shown a straight red card by referee Ismail Elfath for a foul on Atlanta’s Leandro González Pirez, a call that came post-play through the video assistant referee review. The Whitecaps appealed the card, and the automatic one-game suspension that came with it, to an independent review panel through
  
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• Jon McComb: B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver is a ‘toothless tiger’

  23-03-2018 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver has no intention of upsetting the apple cart, no matter what the minority NDP government does, Jon McComb says.
  
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• Ed Willes: Meghan Agosta is still living the dream

  23-03-2018 21:28 via theprovince.com
  Given everything she’s accomplished in her career, and everything she’s been through in the last three years, you’d think Meghan Agosta had squeezed every last drop out of the game and is now ready to begin the next phase of her life.
  She’s 31, right? And she’s been to four Olympics, including this last one which took it’s toll emotionally and physically. Throw in her somewhat-demanding day job — constable with the Vancouver Police Department — and
  
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• Federal Green Party leader’s arrest at Kinder Morgan facility

  23-03-2018 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  Video of federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May being taken away by RCMP officers after defying a court order outside of Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Mountain facility.
  
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• Green Party leader Elizabeth May arrested live on-air broadcast

  23-03-2018 21:20 via globalnews.ca
  Reporter Jordan Armstrong reports live from the anti-pipeline protest on Burnaby Mountain at the time of Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s arrest.
  
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• Province could take over Golden Ears Bridge to fund Metro Vancouver transit plan

  23-03-2018 20:59 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is seriously considering taking over ownership of the Golden Ears Bridge to relieve TransLink of its annual debt repayments and cover almost half of the regional transit funding shortfall.
  The province, TransLink and the Mayors’ Council announced on March 16 that they had come to an agreement to take care of the approximately $70-million annual regional funding gap for the second phase of the mayors’ transit and transportation plan for Metro Vancouver.
  That plan i
  
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• B.C. MP Kennedy Stewart talks about why he is protesting at Kinder Morgan work site

  23-03-2018 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  Burnaby South NDP MP Kennedy Stewart speaks with Global News about why he is protesting at the Kinder Morgan tank farm.
  
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• B.C. MP Kennedy Stewart on why he is protesting at Kinder Morgan facility

  23-03-2018 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  Burnaby South NDP MP Kennedy Stewart speaks with Global News about why he is protesting at the Kinder Morgan tank farm.
  
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• Elizabeth May, Burnaby MP arrested at Kinder Morgan protest

  23-03-2018 20:50
  
  Green Party leader joins 16 others who cross the five-metre no-go zone in Burnaby.
  
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• B.C. MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart protest at Kinder Morgan facility

  23-03-2018 20:49 via globalnews.ca
  Saanich-Gulf Islands MP and Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and Burnaby South NDP MP Kennedy Stewart joined several dozen protesters and marched to the gate of the Kinder Morgan tank farm.
  
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• Enjoy Machu Picchu without the four-day hike

  23-03-2018 20:36 via theprovince.com
  It’s common knowledge that if you want to see Machu Picchu, voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, there’s a prerequisite four-day hike. And that’s kept us away for years.
  My 60-year old husband Kevin, and I, are both fit, but my 57-year old knees have become increasingly cranky. When we discovered that G Adventures offered a trip that could get us to Machu Picchu without taking the four-day hike and that it was paired with National Geographic Journeys to include othe
  
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• Green Party leader Elizabeth May arrested at B.C. anti-pipeline protest

  23-03-2018 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  Green Party leader Elizabeth May was arrested at the Kinder Morgan facility on Burnaby Mountain Friday morning after defying a court injunction that banned protesters from disrupting construction work at both Trans Mountain terminals.
  
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• LIVE: B.C. MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart arrested at Kinder Morgan protest

  23-03-2018 20:27 via vancouversun.com
  A pair of B.C. MPs were arrested at Kinder Morgan’s tank farm in Burnaby on Friday after joining a protest in opposition to the construction of the federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May, the member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, and New Democrat member of Parliament Kennedy Stewart were arrested for allegedly violating a court-imposed protest-free zone around certain Kinder Morgan properties in Metro Vancouver.
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• B.C. MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart arrested at Kinder Morgan facility

  23-03-2018 20:24 via globalnews.ca
  Two Members of Parliament were arrested at the Kinder Morgan facility on Burnaby Mountain after defying a court injunction on Friday.
  
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• Stop opposing pipelines if you don’t like high gas prices: Alberta to B.C.

  23-03-2018 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Rachel Notley accused Horgan's government of environmental hypocrisy.
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week for March 17

  23-03-2018 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah.
  2. The Last Jedi (Star Wars) — Jason Fry.
  3. Little Fires Everywhere — Celest Ng.
  4. Fifty Fifty — James Patterson and Candice Fox.
  5. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn.
  6. The Kremlin Conspiracy — Joel C. Rosenberg.
  7. The Escape Artist — Brad Meltzer.
  8. Burn Bright — Patricia Briggs.
  9. An American Marriage — Tayari Jones.
  10. Before We Were Yo
  
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• Town Talk: Museum of Vancouver's Haida Now exhibition fêted

  23-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  HAIDA’S TOUCH: The Museum of Vancouver’s new CEO, Mauro Vescera, got his 100-kilowatt smile to Kitsilano Point just in time to open the Haida Now exhibition that will run to June 15. Guest curated by Kwiaahwah Jones with the MOV’s Viviane Gosselin, the 450-work exhibition opened with singing and dignified conduct that pleased Haida leader and Officer of the Order of Canada Miles Richardson. Thanking organizers for the “proper ceremony,” he said: “Ceremony and
  
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• Douglas Todd: Canadians are more happy than xenophobic

  23-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Immigrating to Canada makes people happier, according to the United Nations’ 2018 World Happiness Report, which confirms Canadians are among the most tolerant and welcoming people in the world.
  The Happiness Report reveals Canada is “the fourth most accepting country for migrants.” That’s out of 117 nations for which data is available, behind only Iceland, New Zealand and, surprisingly, Rwanda. It’s basically an A+ grade for Canadians.
  Despite the media frequently r
  
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• Anti-racism rally planned for Saturday afternoon

  23-03-2018 19:56
  
  Activists spanning trade unions, religious and political groups are convening Saturday, March 24, for a rally that will span the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown.
  
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• Whopper of a tale: cremated cat's ashes stolen from Burger King

  23-03-2018 19:54
  
  Owner distraught after her brother picks up ashes but finds them gone after dropping by New Westminster franchise.
  
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• Sea-sponge derivatives able to inhibit, attack growth of HIV in infected cells: SFU study

  23-03-2018 19:54 via vancouversun.com
  Half a dozen novel compounds derived from sea sponges are able to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in infected cells, according to a newly published study from Simon Fraser University.
  These compounds attack HIV’s ability to grow in a way that is different from available drugs, which helps identify weaknesses of the virus that could be exploited by some future therapy, said lead author Ian Tietjen.
  “The more we know about retroviruses, the better we can find ways to ki
  
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• High winds cancel BC Ferries morning sailings

  23-03-2018 19:52 via globalnews.ca
  Sailings from Horseshoe Bay to Vancouver Island were cancelled Friday morning due to high winds
  
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• Mother of 4 dies after being hit in Maple Ridge truck rampage

  23-03-2018 19:24 via globalnews.ca
  "She sacrificed herself to ensure the safety of her child," said a GoFundMe page.
  
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• Snow-clearing system installed on Alex Fraser Bridge

  23-03-2018 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  Crews have completed installation of a cable-collar system to clear ice and snow from the cables on the Alex Fraser Bridge.
  The snow-clearing system will make the bridge “safer for drivers during winter weather,” said a media release from the Ministry of Transportation. It should also help to prevent closures on days when ice forms on the bridge cables.
  Last winter, the provincial government spent between $1.1 million and $1.3 million to remove ice and snow from the Alex Fraser, whic
  
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• Priciest new listing is $24.8M Shaughnessy mansion (PHOTOS)

  23-03-2018 19:20
  
  It's not the first time this near-10,000-square-foot home has been listed at this price
  
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• YVR ranked best airport in North America for ninth straight year

  23-03-2018 19:00
  
  Skytrax World Airport Awards based on independent customer satisfaction survey.
  
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• Fab 5: Time for a tan ban

  23-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  When it comes to bags, black and tan are perennial classics — and with so many flash-in-the-pan trends out there right now, we’re into the palate-cleansing effect of a more pared-down, traditional purse. From timeless totes to butter-soft cross-body styles, Rebecca Tay showcases five tan bags to grab hold of this season.
  CIRCLING BACK
  Known for its inimitable brand of luxe practicality, Michael Kors Collection is the main line from the New York designer, and this ‘Sko
  
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• Book review: Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe

  23-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cut You Down
  Sam Wiebe
  Random House | $24  
  Cut You Down is the second of Sam Wiebe’s novels on the case with David Wakeland, a brooding, fists-ready, disappointed romantic of a P.I. Grippingly twisty entertainment, the story also offers provocative thoughts about the state of the west coast’s soul. 
  The book is marked by a curious but attractive mixture of qualities. Foremost is the surprising elegance. Wiebe’s spare meticulous sentences are little marvels of co
  
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• 2018 Juno Awards: 5 songs we want to hear at the Gord Downie tribute

  23-03-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the special tributes at the 2018 Juno Awards will be when artists Dallas Green and Sarah Harmer join forces to honour the late lead singer of The Tragically Hip, Gord Downie.
  The vocalist and songwriter died on October 17, 2017 and his sixth and final solo album Introduce Yourself was released posthumously on October 27. Critics waxed rhapsodically about the album, noting that its 23 tracks represented some of the most stripped-down and direct writing of Downie’s career. The album i
  
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• Vancouver radio: Steve Darling leaving Sportsnet 650

  23-03-2018 18:57 via theprovince.com
  Less than seven months on the air and Sportsnet 650, Vancouver’s new sports radio station, is being hit with its first major roster shakeup.
  Steve Darling, co-host of the Starting Lineup morning drive show, announced Friday that he is leaving Sportsnet for another  opportunity, which he did not divulge.
  “I have accepted another offer and you will be seeing me soon. Thank you to my friends at the radio station and for our listeners.. Will have more on the next stage in April,&rdq
  
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• Thief steals jewelry, ashes, in brazen North Van burglary

  23-03-2018 18:47
  
  Owner bereft after mother's ashes, family heirlooms stolen from her home
  
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• Police make arrests in ‘vicious’ beating of man with autism in Mississauga, Ont.

  23-03-2018 18:42 via globalnews.ca
  Police said 21-year-old Parmvir Singh Chahil was arrested in Windsor and charged with one count of aggravated assault.
  
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• Labour shortage blamed for Steveston's higher turnover rate

  23-03-2018 18:39
  
  An average of more than one business shut down in Steveston every month in 2017.
  
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• Georgia Viaduct to close this weekend for Juno Award red carpet walk

  23-03-2018 18:31
  
  Part of the Georgia Viaduct will be closed to traffic this weekend for the 2018 Juno Awards.
  
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• Alberta minister calls B.C. government ‘environmental hypocrites’ over LNG tax rebate decision

  23-03-2018 18:21 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd says word that the B.C. government is offering tax incentives for liquefied natural gas projects doesn't make sense.
  
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• Senate votes 44-29 on cannabis legalization bill's second reading

  23-03-2018 17:33
  
  The Canadian Senate voted 44-29 to send Bill C-45, to legalize recreational cannabis, to the committee stage after spending hours debating the bill on March 22.
  
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• Public hearing for PoMo properties postponed

  23-03-2018 17:26
  
  Fears about added congestion from an additional tower being constructed in Port Moody’s Suter Brook village have already been realized.
  
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• Trans Mountain protesters stage sit-in at Calgary’s Kinder Morgan Canada offices

  23-03-2018 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  A number of police officers were at Kinder Morgan Canada's Calgary offices for the protest on Friday.
  
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• Pro and anti-Trans Mountain pipeline protesters clash in Calgary

  23-03-2018 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  Tensions ran high in Calgary on Friday morning, as pro and anti-pipeline protesters clashed at a couple of locations within the city. 
  
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• Petition calls on B.C. government to lift luxury car tax off electric vehicles

  23-03-2018 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  The tax targets cars in different price tiers, beginning at $55,000. Most electric vehicles are prices well above that.
  
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