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• Fergie’s restaurant destroyed in early morning blaze

  03-04-2018 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  A popular Squamish restaurant has been badly damaged in an early morning fire Tuesday. Despite the devastating loss, the community is rallying around the owners as they face the challenge of rebuilding.
  
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• Adopt a Pet: Kingston

  03-04-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  Big, loveable Kingston is being cared for by the BC SPCA, and is looking for a forever home.
  
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• Vancouver police roll out new electronic ticketing technology

  03-04-2018 23:13
  
  Vancouver Police Department taking part in electronic ticketing pilot project.
  
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• MC50 presents Kick Out the Jams — the 50th Anniversary Tour

  03-04-2018 22:58 via vancouversun.com
  MC50 presents Kick Out the Jams — the 50th Anniversary Tour
  When: Oct. 17, 8 p.m.
  Where: The Commodore
  Tickets and info: $40 at  ticketmaster.ca, Red Cat Main and Red Cat Hastings streets
  Rock ‘n’ roll revivals, regroupings and specific album outings happen all the time. Some forever, not for the better.
  But the tour that surviving MC5 guitar-shredder Wayne Kramer has lined up for the 50th anniversary of the Detroit radical rockers’ 1968 debut album, Kick Out t
  
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• Fire guts popular Squamish cafe

  03-04-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Firefighters were called to Fergie's Cafe on Squamish Valley Road on Tuesday just before 5 a.m., where they found flames rising from the structure.
  
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• City councillor wants Montreal police force to allow turbans and hijabs

  03-04-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  A longtime city councillor, Marvin Rotrand, is again calling on the Montreal police force to allow its officers to wear turbans and hijabs.
  
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• When 30,000 birders flock to Vancouver this August, Delta plans a detour

  03-04-2018 22:45
  
  Delta's already known as a great spot for bird watching; it wants to make sure visitors to the 2018 International Ornithological Congress know it, too.
  
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• B.C. residents to receive mobile emergency alerts starting April 6

  03-04-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  The emergency alerts may look like text messages, but will sound like anything but.
  
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• North Vancouver man clocked doing 161 km/h on test drive

  03-04-2018 22:24 via vancouversun.com
  A North Vancouver man looking to drop some cash on a car on Sunday was instead slapped with a hefty ticket for excessive speeding.
  West Vancouver police clocked a four-door sedan travelling 161 km/h in a 90 km/h zone along Highway 1 near 22nd Street just before 2 p.m.
  The driver was pushing the pedal to the metal while test driving a car from a North Shore dealership. He even had a salesperson riding shotgun in the passenger seat.
  Const. Jeff Palmer, a West Vancouver police spokesman,
  
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• Demand to see Sedins’ final Canucks home game jumps more than 2,000 per cent: Stub Hub

  03-04-2018 22:22 via theprovince.com
  Demand for tickets to see Daniel and Henrik Sedin’s final home game with the Vancouver Canucks jumped more than 2,000 per cent on Monday after they announced their retirement.
  Visits to Stub Hub’s event page for the April 5 home game against the Arizona Coyotes at Rogers Arena increased by more than 2,000 per cent compared to the daily average, according to Stub Hub spokesman Cameron Papp.
  “This game has definitely become a hot ticket since the announcement,” he said in a
  
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• Horgan defends speculation tax during Okanagan visit

  03-04-2018 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Kelowna and West Kelowna are among the areas covered by planned tax on some vacant homes aimed at increasing housing affordability.
  
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• New BC Parks student ranger program launches

  03-04-2018 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of young adults are getting a special opportunity to work in provincial parks. As Jordan Armstrong reports, today marks the launch of a new student ranger program.
  
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• MLA Jas Johal introduces bill to ban non-compostable coffee pods

  03-04-2018 21:31
  
  "The ultimate goal for everything you do in society should be getting to a point where we limit plastics."
  
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• B.C.’s high credit rating confirmed

  03-04-2018 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  "The ratings remain well supported by the province’s diverse and growing economy, positive outlook, ample fiscal capacity and low debt burden.”
  
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• B.C. nurse banned for sexually assaulting 73-year-old can apply for reinstatement in 5 years

  03-04-2018 21:20 via globalnews.ca
  While the nurse was at a client’s home to provide foot care services, he put his hands under the client’s underwear.
  
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• Popular Squamish restaurant destroyed in Blaze

  03-04-2018 20:53 via globalnews.ca
  Witness video captures the flames as fire ripped through Fergie’s restaurant just before 5 am Tuesday morning.
  
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• Letters to The Province, April 3, 2018: Premier doesn’t speak for many in claim we’re OK with higher carbon tax

  03-04-2018 20:50 via theprovince.com
  Premier John Horgan says he is sure that taxpayers will not mind paying a higher carbon tax, as the money will go toward building a better world for us and our children.
  Actually, we do mind. And we minded several tax increases ago, especially now that the carbon tax is no longer revenue-neutral — that the provincial government is taking a “profit” from the tax.
  Horgan needs someone to help him pull his head out of the sand. Taxing us until we are broke will not bring prosperit
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP release photos of men linked to alleged school vandalism

  03-04-2018 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  Mounties say the photographs were taken by a Promontory Elementary School security camera.
  
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• The ultimate guide to the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

  03-04-2018 20:30
  
  Highlights include concerts, Sakura Days, picnic, Spring Lights and Bike the Blossoms
  
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• Premier in Penticton announcing help for mobile home owners facing redevelopment

  03-04-2018 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  “No one should have to face financial ruin or potential homelessness when facing eviction from a manufactured home park."
  
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• Counting Down The Final 4 Weeks Until The Vancouver Sun Run

  03-04-2018 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  As I headed to Brittania this week, we did the math, just 4 more weeks until the big day! Things just got real! The groups flipped through the InTraining booklet to see what week 9 would bring to determine our route. The last 4 weeks leading up to the big day is when muscle memory shows you what you are really capable of!
  Admittedly, my body doesn’t feel ready but it didn’t last year at this time either! My goal of shaving off 10 minutes from last years number didn’t seem achie
  
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• Wireless emergency alerts to go live in B.C.

  03-04-2018 20:00
  
  First test message will be May 9 at 1:55 p.m.
  
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• Beauty Bar: NARS Highlighting Powder Collection

  03-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A new collection of highlighting powders featuring the NARS exclusive Seamless Glow Technology.
  The range of pressed-powder compacts features six skin tone-matching shades: Albatross (an opalescent gold); Fort de France (a champagne hue); Capri (a pink pearl); Ibiza (a yellow gold); Maldives (a rose bronze); and St. Barths (a warm bronze).
  The collection combines “micro-spherical powders” with light-reflecting “pearls” to provide a natural glow that melts &ldq
  
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• The last straw: Vancouver restaurants and bars going strawless

  03-04-2018 19:51 via vancouversun.com
  A growing crowd of clubs, bars and restaurants in and around Vancouver have reached their last straw.
  The watering holes and eateries, in locations that stretch from the ‘burbs to downtown’s Granville Strip, are ditching disposable, plastic straws amid a broader push by policy-makers and environmental groups to cut down on the reliance of single-use plastics. Some, like the Commodore Ballroom, have barred them entirely, while others like White Spot have made them available by request
  
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• Chat with Squire: Sedin’s retire after 18 seasons

  03-04-2018 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC sports anchor Squire Barnes joined Global News Morning to talk about the exciting legacy that Daniel and Henrik Sedin will leave with the Canucks when they retire at the end of the season.
  
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• UPDATE: Ladner armed robbery suspect linked to Surrey accident

  03-04-2018 19:30
  
  One suspect in custody, one still at large
  
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• 'China's Amazon' to start selling Canadian real estate

  03-04-2018 19:18
  
  Chinese consumers can now buy Canadian homes online like shoes, thanks to a new deal between real estate portal Juwai.com and mega-shopping site JD.com
  
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• Travel style: 4 top lifestyle influencers share their packing tips

  03-04-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s no secret that influencers — those beautiful, fun-loving individuals likely filling your social media feeds — always seem to be on an exotic vacation.
  While you can sit there and groan and bemoan their good fortune at being able to frolic in the sand and swim in international waters on a regular basis, we’re more apt to envy their effortless sense of travel style.
  Instead of wondering “how do they do it?” we asked four Vancouver-based lifestyle tastemaker
  
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• Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson opens up about a life with depression and mother's suicide attempt

  03-04-2018 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  Megastar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has had bouts of depression during his life.
  The 45-year-old megastar and former wrestler, who was here in Vancouver and Surrey last summer filming Skyscraper, opened up about those dark times in a recent with the Express newspaper.
  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson meets with fans in Surrey on Oct. 14., 2017.
  Johnson told the U.K. outlet that he witnessed his mother’s suicide attempt when he was just 15 years old.
  He confessed that the bo
  
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• Home inspector licensing fee increase

  03-04-2018 18:53 via globalnews.ca
  On April first the provincial licensing fee for home inspectors jumped 36% and it is scheduled to climb another 25% each year, for the next two years. Home inspector Paul Friesen joined Global News Morning to explain how those costs are getting passed on to the consumer.
  
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• Scheduled test of B.C.-wide emergency text alerts to take place May 9

  03-04-2018 18:50 via vancouversun.com
  A province-wide system that allows emergency alerts to be sent via text messages goes live on Friday, while the first test alert will be sent next month.
  The national Alert Ready system will be live as of April 6, according to a news release from the B.C. government. The system allows for broadcasts of emergency information about natural disasters and major emergencies through radio and television broadcasts, social media feeds and, beginning this week, wireless text messages to smartphones.
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• Fergie's Cafe in Squamish gutted by early morning fire

  03-04-2018 18:01
  
  Firefighters were called to the popular restaurant before 5 a.m. on Tuesday; owner says it will re-open as soon as possible.
  
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• N.S. man’s lifetime ban lifted at Empress Hotel in Victoria

  03-04-2018 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  A Nova Scotia man has finally had his lifetime ban from Victoria’s Empress Hotel lifted. It was the result of an incident 17 years ago involving pepperoni and a flock of seagulls. Kristen Robinson explains.
  
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• Nutrition: Slim down for spring

  03-04-2018 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  Trying to shed some pounds this season? Dietician Diana Steele has some advice on cutting down calories in your typical meals and snacks.
  
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• Nutrition: Apr 3

  03-04-2018 17:39 via globalnews.ca
  Trying to shed some pounds this season? Dietician Diana Steele has some advice on cutting down calories in your typical meals and snacks.
  
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• Movie Minute: Isle of Dogs

  03-04-2018 17:02 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia film critic Dana Gee and Arts Editor Aleesha Harris take a bit out of Wes Anderson’s new stop motion movie Isle of Dogs. The film stars,  or at least their voices star, Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Greta Gerwig, Akira Takayama, F. Murray Abrahms and Tilda Swinton and Akiro Ito.
  
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• Good skin is in (again!) for spring: Chanel beauty expert talks skin-care tips, colour trends

  03-04-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Spring is the season for fresh starts. From quick closet clean-outs to full-on purges, it’s the season of letting go. 
  And, according to Julie Cusson, that fresh approach is also one we can expect to adopt for the season’s best beauty looks, too.
  “The mood for spring/summer 2018 is freshness,” Cusson, a makeup artist for Chanel, says.
  According to Cusson, it alls starts with bidding adieu to the mega-watt, Insta-glam highlighting and overdone brows of recent seasons
  
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• B.C. blueberry farmers could lose millions due to bee shortage

  03-04-2018 16:58 via globalnews.ca
  There will be a shortage of between 2,000 to 4,000 bee colonies, which could cost blueberry growers over $12 million in lost fruit, one expert says.
  
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• Deadline extended to raise $1 million for Rio Theatre purchase

  03-04-2018 16:09 via vancouversun.com
  The show must go on.
  Shortly after completing a 30-hour telethon, Rio Theatre operator Corinne Lea announced she had been granted an extension on the deadline to raise $1 million to buy the beloved East Vancouver theatre.
  “Good news! We are very excited to announce we have been granted an extension from our landlord, so we have more time to raise the funds and complete all the paper work needed to buy the Rio,” she shared in a post early Tuesday morning.
  The new deadline to
  
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• Daily Poll: How should Daniel and Henrik Sedin be honoured?

  03-04-2018 15:47 via vancouversun.com
  On Monday, Daniel and Henrik Sedin announced they would be retiring at the end of their current season with the Vancouver Canucks.
  After 18 years of playing together in Vancouver, the brothers said in a letter that it was time to focus on their families and life after hockey.
  The pair will play their final three games this week. Those games include two homes against Vegas Golden Knights and Arizona Coyotes, and one away game against the Edmonton Oilers.Take Our Poll
  
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• Vancouver weather: Rain and grey skies to clear in the afternoon

  03-04-2018 15:19 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: April 3, 2018 – While Tuesday’s weather will be a bit wet, it should clear up in the afternoon before rain returns in the evening.
  But that’s not much to rejoice over – there’s rain in the rest of the schedule this week as well. Grey skies and showers are the theme of the week, as well as a slight chill.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Showers end around noon, with clouds in the evening. High of 10.
  Tonight: Cloudy with periods of rain late in the ev
  
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• How did we end up with a two-week spring break?

  03-04-2018 15:05
  
  As the kids prepare to trundle back to school this week at the end of their two-week spring break, it’s worth asking: Why?
  
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• Style Q & amp; A: Pamela Card Jewelry mixes tradition, timeless style

  03-04-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you haven’t already heard of Pamela Card Jewelry, it’s safe to say you’ve been missing out.
  The Vancouver-based jewelry brand offers cool-girl (or guy!) medallion accessories that merge eye-catching accessories with an antique, tied-to-the-past feel. 
  We caught up with the brand’s designer/owner — Pamela Card — to chat inspiration, design and what makes her pieces different from the rest. Here’s what she had to say. 
  Q. When and why did you
  
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• Spring fashion: Must-buy style accessories from Vancouver makers

  03-04-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Accessories are one of the funnest — not to mention fastest — ways to update your wardrobe each season.
  A great shoe can add a pop to even the simplest ensemble, while a statement handbag can be a look-at-me addition to every outfit, all season long. 
  But, while we can all undoubtedly score a number of stylish options at any national and international (not to mention online!) retailers, we’ve opted to highlight 10 fashionable finds from local makers and brands.
  From chic s
  
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• The Morning Skate, April 3: Sedins mustn’t become tears in the rain

  03-04-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Ok, let’s be honest.
  A day later and it still stings a bit. The Sedin-less future just doesn’t look all that rosy. Sure there are those kids, but the future by its nature offers few guarantees.
  And you look back, well, if you didn’t hear Roy Batty’s warning — or Max Fischer’s — you know it already. Memories fade.
  Let’s avoid moping and remind ourselves to focus on the moment.
  With all the words that have been spilt already on the Sedins, it’s
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Sedins’ salute should rule the day and night

  03-04-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  The Canucks have won four of their last five games, they have allowed sneak peaks at prize prospects Adam Gaudette and Thatcher Demko. But tonight against Vegas is all about the Sedins. The twins announced their retirement Monday morning and with two home games left, they should wear earplugs because it’s going to be loud. They have both played more than 1,000 games, they have both amassed more than 1,000 career points, they both won the Art Ross Trophy, and Henrik has also captured the Ha
  
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• Rio Theatre campaign given 1 more month to buy the building

  03-04-2018 08:20 via globalnews.ca
  #SaveTheRio has just been given more time.
  
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• Andrew Scheer to visit Okanagan first week of April

  03-04-2018 08:02 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is using his two-week parliamentary break to woo supporters in the Okanagan Valley.
  
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• Revelstoke Grizzlies defeat Kimberley Dynamiters 4-1

  03-04-2018 07:09 via globalnews.ca
  The final playoff series of the KIJHL Hockey League continues with games between the Revelstoke Grizzlies and Kimberley Dynamiters. The Revelstoke Grizzlies were down 2-0 in the series before winning game three Monday night on home ice. Doris Maria Bregolisse has highlights.
  
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• Vancouver Canucks taking steps to help fans with autism enjoy the games

  03-04-2018 06:42 via globalnews.ca
  They're putting a new mask on their goalie. And introducing plenty of new practices at Rogers Arena.
  
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