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• Canucks fans collect autographs at player meet-and-greet

  31-03-2018 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  Fresh off a fantastic hockey season themselves, sisters Lily and Marin Carlos were thrilled to score their favourite Vancouver Canucks autographs Saturday morning at a fan appreciation event outside Rogers Arena.
  The two girls, who play for the Powell River Pit Bulls, met Henrik and Daniel Sedin, as well as almost a dozen other players, making the long trip to Vancouver worth the trouble. SharePhotos: Fans line up to meet Vancouver Canucks playersTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail
  
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• All Woodlands survivors to receive compensation from B.C. government

  31-03-2018 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. government is offering compensation to all former residents of the Woodlands School, the site of widespread physical and sexual abuse.
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Centre A raises funds for new space, B.C. shines at Junos

  31-03-2018 22:00 via theprovince.com
  Front and centre
  Centre A, Canada’s only non-profit public gallery devoted to contemporary Asian art, held its 19th Anniversary Fundraising Gala and Auction at the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
  Featuring works by leading and emerging artists, the annual affair led by Cynthia Chou, Cathleen Chow, Alex Cu Unjieng, Jenny Guo, Cecilia Liu, April Milne, and Rebecca Peng attracted more than 200 supporters and art enthusiasts, who convened to celebrate Asian art and raise funds for Centre A’s expa
  
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• ‘Captain Canada’ Steve Nash to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

  31-03-2018 21:35 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Steve Nash, Jason Kidd and Grant Hill are among the 13-member class that will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September.
  
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• Canucks fans collect autographs at player meet-and-greet event

  31-03-2018 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  Fresh off a fantastic hockey season themselves, sisters Lily and Marin Carlos were thrilled to score their favourite Vancouver Canucks autographs Saturday morning at a fan appreciation event outside Rogers Arena.
  The two girls, who play for the Powell River Pit Bulls, met Henrik and Daniel Sedin, as well as almost a dozen other players, making the long trip from the Sunshine Coast worth the trouble.
  Ten-year-old Lily said she was excited to see the Sedins “up close,” while Marin, 8,
  
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• Sound of Dragon highlights diversity and collaboration in Asian music

  31-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  3rd Sound of Dragon Music Festival
  When: April 5-8 
  Where: Annex Theatre and Roundhouse Community Arts Centre
  Tickets: Starting at $25/$15 for students/seniors at soundofdragon.com
  Sound of Dragon is a biennial showcase of new and traditional Asian music. In each edition, local and national musicians collaborate with international players and ensembles on a mix of Western and Eastern instruments. This year’s event features local groups Turning Point Ensemble, 21 Strings
  
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• Makeover: An updated look for a busy grandmother

  31-03-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rosa Raso is a busy grandmother and while visiting Vancouver, she decided to update her look.
  Rosa has very thick and naturally straight hair. She regularly colours it and recently got a perm in hopes that it would add more body to her hair. Unfortunately, the perm did not turn out as she hoped and the over-processing damaged her hair.
  I wanted to create a multi-dimensional colour effect to her colour and applied foils highlights throughout. I used a silk-infused decolorizer to lighten her hair
  
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• Thomas Haas’ Easter Treats

  31-03-2018 19:48 via globalnews.ca
  Indulge your sweet tooth this Easter with Thomas Haas. He shares his recipe for a twist on the classic crème brulee.
  
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• Elderly woman in hospital after being struck by police vehicle; IIO investigating

  31-03-2018 19:48 via globalnews.ca
  The IIO, a civilian-led body that responds to incidents of serious injury or death involving police officers, has taken over the investigation.
  
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• BC Distilled Festival

  31-03-2018 19:48 via globalnews.ca
  We sample some of the new and unique spirits that will be showcased at this years some BC distilled festival.
  
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• UGM Easter Meal

  31-03-2018 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  Jeremy Hunka from the Union Gospel Mission tells us what preparations are underway for their annual Easter feast.
  
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• Chef Trevor Bird

  31-03-2018 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  Delicious cuisine and recipes cooked up on the Saturday Morning News. Chef Trevor Bird is in the kitchen sharing his top tips for cooking the perfect poached egg.
  
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• Gord Kurenoff: Best leader pick provided light during darkest moments

  31-03-2018 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  Those of us enrolled in this year’s Vancouver Sun Run InTraining clinics received emails a few days ago suggesting that “hill-climbing week” would be our “toughest challenge” yet.
  Yeah, not quite.
  A second mail out requesting nominations for Leader of the Year easily trumps that. C’mon man, that’s like asking a mother of five to choose her favourite kid in front of the entire family. Or only eat one Lay’s potato chip!
  My W.C. Blair Langley clinic h
  
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• Majority of B.C. residents support private healthcare when provincial waitlists are too long: poll

  31-03-2018 19:16 via vancouversun.com
  A new poll suggests that a majority of British Columbians would like the option to pay for private healthcare when the waiting list is too long under the public system.
  The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, asked respondents whether they agree or disagree that the Canadian Charter “should allow patients who have been on provincial healthcare wait lists longer than the maximum recommended waiting period for their condition to pay for private treatment.&r
  
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• Canucks meet fans Saturday morning in Vancouver

  31-03-2018 19:10 via vancouversun.com
  Several Canucks players are meeting fans outside Rogers Arena on Saturday morning in advance of a special family game.
  Fans line up to meet #Canucks players at public meet & greet #Vancouver @VancouverSun pic.twitter.com/pT4Oju69YN
  — Glenda Luymes (@glendaluymes) March 31, 2018The players are expected to be at Gate 10 from 10-10:40 a.m. to greet fans of all ages. 
  At 1 p.m. the puck drops for a “family game” against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
  No tickets are required fo
  
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• B.C. family seeks crowdfunding support as child fights for his life

  31-03-2018 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  Four-year-old Evan Shishakly could lose his fingers and hand as he battles a potentially deadly blood infection at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. His family from Westbank is now seeking the public’s support.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mostly sunny with a few clouds

  31-03-2018 18:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday’s weather looks dry, with plenty of sunshine and a few clouds. It’s a lovely start to the Easter long weekend in Metro Vancouver, however Environment Canada is calling for rain again on Sunday.  There’s also a 40 per cent chance of showers on Monday, with some sunny breaks.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. High 12 C. 
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Low 5 C.
  Tomorrow: Mainly cloudy. A few showers beginning
  
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• Driving the Golden Circle, loaded for bear

  31-03-2018 17:53 via theprovince.com
  Well shy of the 1,990-metre summit of Kings Throne, my legs felt rubbery and I considered quitting. Then a German couple came bounding merrily down the trail, a child holstered to each of their backs, and I felt ashamed.
  “Not so far,” the young dad assured me. “Not so difficult.”
  Right. The King’s Throne trek is one of the most popular day hikes in Kluane National Park, which means you may encounter a handful of other people, which in the Yukon constitutes a crowd,
  
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• Obituary: For Samuel Belzberg, giving to community was a responsibility

  31-03-2018 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  It was never about the name on the building. For Vancouver businessman and philanthropist Samuel Belzberg, giving back to his community was an honour and a responsibility.
  Belzberg died Friday evening in Vancouver after a massive stroke several days earlier. The 89-year-old was at work when he collapsed and was rushed to hospital.
  “He was at his desk, just like he would have wanted,” said his daughter, Wendy Belzberg.
  An Officer of the Order of Canada, Belzberg was chairman and
  
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• Muscle car lovers mull electric vehicles at Vancouver Auto Show

  31-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Surrey resident Harm Bhullar and his young nephew Nihaal have a tradition of hitting the Vancouver International Auto Show together.  
  “I like seeing all those fast cars. Bugatti. Lamborghini,” says Nihaal, rattling off his faves like the veteran he already is, at only 11 years old.
  This year, the two of them, along with other gas-guzzling aficionados, are also spending some time thinking about electric vehicles.
  For Harm, it’s both about being practical and philosoph
  
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• Corner Gas crew is back and they're animated

  31-03-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Corner Gas Animated
  When: April 2, 8 p.m.
  Where: Comedy Network
  For each of its six seasons CTV’s Corner Gas was Canada’s top sitcom.
  In 2014, that success translated into a feature film. Now, four years later, there is indeed a lot going on as the franchise has once again expanded. This time the gang from Dog River, Sask., are starring in an animated version of the show.
  Vancouver’s Brent Butt returns as the show’s creator, executive producer, showrunner and the voi
  
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• All in the family at The Links

  31-03-2018 15:34 via vancouversun.com
  The Links Residences, located next door to Surrey’s Guildford Golf and Country Club, has been proving to be attractive to to families with kids. One downsizing couple has a son in Grade Six who is mad about golf, while another couple is looking to upsize because they’re tired of being “held hostage” when their two teenagers have their friends over.
  Erica Enstrom said she and her partner don’t play golf, but are moving to a 2,900-square-foot townhome that overlooks t
  
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• B.C. firms shine at national residential competition

  31-03-2018 15:28 via vancouversun.com
  Eight B.C.companies — seven from Metro Vancouver and one from the island — stepped into the spotlight at a recent national competition honouring last year’s top performances in the residential construction and renovation industry.
  Winners of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association’s 2018 National Awards for Housing Excellence were announced at a gala event during the association’s 75th national conference in Victoria on March 24.
  It included categories for new
  
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• Sold (Bought): Renovated West Van home has impressive outlooks

  31-03-2018 15:21 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  2496 Ottawa Avenue, West Vancouver
  Type: Four-bedroom, six-bathroom detached
  Size: 4,635 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $5,192,000
  Listed for: $5,998,000
  Sold for: $5,500,000
  Sold on: Dec. 7
  Days on market: 50
  Listing agent: Ray Proc at Royal LePage Sussex
  Buyers agent: Steven Tse at Macdonald Realty
  The big sell: Among the selling points of this beautifully crafted home in the heart of West Vancouver’s Dundarave neighbourh
  
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• Yves Potvin brings his entrenpreneurial success to Vancouver culinary school

  31-03-2018 15:00
  
  Creator of North America's first veggie dog is the new majority owner of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts
  
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• The amazing octopuses of Howe Sound

  31-03-2018 14:07
  
  They are clever and curious survivors, says biologist
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Torts, Blue Jackets zip in here for a Saturday matinee

  31-03-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Honey glazed ham, hot cross buns, carrot cake, chocolate bunnies and Torts.
  Maybe your dinner table this Easter weekend will include some of these. Those spending Saturday afternoon at Rogers Arena will definitely get the latter, as the playoff hungry Columbus Blue Jackets zip into town for an NHL matinee matchup with the suddenly hot Vancouver Canucks.
  THE BIG MATCHUP
  John Tortorella vs. Vancouver
  He was only in the city for a year but he left a lasting imprint that won’t soon be forgotte
  
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• B.C. government to compensate pre-1974 Woodlands residents

  31-03-2018 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government is offering compensation to former residents of the Woodlands provincial mental institution in New Westminster who were shut out of a previous legal settlement.
  On Saturday, Premier John Horgan announced payments of $10,000 each for patients of Woodlands who were at the facility before 1974. The former “provincial asylum for the insane” was the site of horrific physical and sexual abuse, but government payments to former patients in 2010 only cove
  
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• Dan Fumano: Online 'electoral dirty tricks' could play role in local politics

  31-03-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Greg Moore has been travelling around B.C. recently, delivering a presentation to local governments that has been met, each time, with wide eyes and concerned questions.
  Moore, the chair of Metro Vancouver and three-term Port Coquitlam mayor, has researched online interference in global elections, and was recently asked to prepare a presentation examining whether the phenomenon could eventually reach the local level. His audiences have found the results, he said, to be “quite an eye-opener
  
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• Pipeline demonstrators make their way into Burnaby RCMP detachment after man's arrest

  31-03-2018 06:52 via vancouversun.com
  The Burnaby RCMP’s battle with pipeline protesters took another turn Friday, as demonstrators made their way into the detachment’s main lobby to protest the arrest of one of their own.
  On Thursday, Harry Johnson-Larue, 31, was arrested on an outstanding warrant related to the alleged assault of a Burnaby police officer last Sunday. Johnson-Larue initially resisted arrest, police said, but was taken into custody safely.
  According to police, that incident began when a man was arrested
  
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• Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra: The Great Human Odyssey

  31-03-2018 06:00 via globalnews.ca
  770 CHQR and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra present The Great Human Odyssey, at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Arts Commons on Saturday, April 28. The Nature of Things meets IMAX meets live orchestra! Anthropologist and host Niobe Thompson and composer-conductor Darren Fung join forces with the Calgary Philharmonic in a cinematic and live musical exploration...
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – March 30

  31-03-2018 05:59 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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• Gordon Gibson: 'School tax' is confiscatory wealth tax on lifetime savers

  31-03-2018 05:36 via vancouversun.com
  Traditionally, finance ministers buy new shoes before a budget. Carole James ordered army boots.
  The first boot was called the “speculation tax.” Wrong words. It is a frontal attack on private property, hitting foreigners and Canadians equally. There is so much dust in the air that the outcome is unclear at the moment.
  For sure, thousands of ordinary British Columbians will have their family, work commute, vacation or retirement plans troubled by this one. With our declining dollar a
  
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• Blood poisoning turned his limbs, nose and ears black. Now 4-year-old Evan’s fighting for his life

  31-03-2018 05:22 via globalnews.ca
  "At this point all I can be thankful for is that my son is alive, and if we get to go home and he doesn't have a hand, that doesn't even matter, right?"
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Mar 30

  31-03-2018 05:09 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, March 30, 2018.
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters for Saturday, March 31, 2018

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The NDP government says tweaks will be made to ensure B.C. citizens will not pay the “speculation tax,” leaving only non-Canadians and Canadians who reside in other provinces as the targets.
  Can Premier John Horgan explain how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to these other Canadians? The provisions look crystal clear. 
  Section 6 (2) (a) says, “Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the right to mo
  
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• Larry Green: Anarchy or liminality?

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  “You want it darker” was the title of Leonard Cohen’s last album. He died just two days before Donald Trump won the U.S. election. The title song expressed what many of us feel but won’t acknowledge: a rumbling of terror beneath “business as usual.”
  I recall my mother saying, in the months leading up to her death, “I’m doing normal things — making the bed, sweeping the floor, emptying the wastebasket — in the hope that doing those thing
  
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• Editorial: Find a better way to handle Metro pay raises

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s hard to know what is more irritating about Metro Vancouver board members giving themselves a fat raise and new “retirement allowance” — that they did it or how they did it.
  First, consider their 15 per cent raise to cover changes in the 2017 federal budget that eliminated the non-taxable status of a portion of politicians’ salaries. Must be nice to be able to jack up one’s salary when hit by an increased tax burden.
  Metro chairman Greg Moore said “w
  
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• Beau Dick's revolutionary works featured at Audain Art Museum

  31-03-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Beau Dick: Revolutionary Spirit
  When: To June 11
  Where: Audain Art Museum, Whistler
  Info: audainartmuseum.comKwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick returned to making masks of Dzunukwa, the wild woman of the woods, again and again. Each iteration was slightly different.
  What they all had in common were parted red lips so she could howl her eerie ‘hu!’ sound to scare children. And then there’s the cannibal woman’s masses of unruly dark hair: she’s so hirsute, it h
  
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• It just got tougher to take Quebec’s back door into Vancouver and Toronto real estate

  31-03-2018 04:25 via globalnews.ca
  It's a program that has come under fire for creating a "trampoline effect" into other Canadian cities.
  
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• Vancouver leading Canada in ‘passive’ homes

  31-03-2018 04:10 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Vancouver is becoming a hub for the future of ‘passive’ homes, which are built with the strictest of environmental standards. Nadia Stewart explains.
  
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• Director Kevin Smith helps save the Rio Theatre

  31-03-2018 04:07 via globalnews.ca
  A little more than a month after suffering a massive heart attack, director Kevin Smith is following through on his promise to help save Vancouver’s Rio Theatre. Julia Foy has the story.
  
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• B.C. report says pot smoking can delay harder drug use

  31-03-2018 04:07 via globalnews.ca
  The BC Centre on Substance abuse says smoking marijuana every day could delay at-risk youth from moving on to more dangerous drugs.Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Mar 30

  31-03-2018 04:07 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, March 30, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Burnaby firefighters tackle difficult house fire

  31-03-2018 04:06 via globalnews.ca
  A two-alarm fire caused extensive damage to a Burnaby home. Jennifer Palma explains why what was inside made it particularly hard to fight.
  
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• West Vancouver mayor slams retirement allowance for board members

  31-03-2018 04:03 via globalnews.ca
  The mayor of West Vancouver is blasting the decision by the members of the Metro Vancouver board to give themselves a retirement allowance. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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• Final frame looms for longstanding North Van bowling alley

  31-03-2018 04:00
  
  There's a for-sale sign on the building and 72-year-old Richard Grubb says it's time to hang up his bowling shoes, too.
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Okanagan Falls headed to be B.C.'s second sub-GI

  31-03-2018 04:00 via vancouversun.com
  Over the three plus decades I’ve been covering wine there has been no shortage of incidents involving less than scrupulous winery marketers appropriating important regional or geographic names to take advantage of someone’s hard work to jump start their labels in the marketplace.
  Gallo Hearty “Burgundy” comes to mind, as does the word “Champagne” on countless New World wine labels, and there are many more examples.
  Recently the Chianti Consortium representing
  
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• Douglas Todd: How Canadian Christians view Easter in the age of Trump

  31-03-2018 03:22 via vancouversun.com
  As Canada’s more than eight million Protestants mark the most holy time on the Christian calendar, many are appalled at what they see south of the border, where a notorious womanizer holds the nation’s highest office largely because of support from fellow Protestants.
  U.S. President Donald Trump maintains the loyalty of more than 70 per cent of white evangelical Protestants (and most mainline Protestants) despite an avalanche of allegations that he frequently engaged in sordid sex ac
  
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