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• Support pours in for Humboldt Broncos after 15 die in bus crash

  07-04-2018 23:27
  
  Money will go to families devastated by fatal crash; platform pledges to take down bogus campaigns.
  
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• Support pours in for Humboldt Broncos after 14 die in bus crash

  07-04-2018 23:27
  
  Money will go to families devastated by fatal crash; platform pledges to take down bogus campaigns.
  
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• Former Humboldt Broncos player devastated by loss of ex-teammates in bus crash

  07-04-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Quinn Schneidmiller was with the Humboldt Broncos until he was traded in October. Earlier this week, he visited his former teammates, just days before a fatal bus crash claimed 15 lives.
  
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• 'Overwhelming' popularity of new alpine trails in Whistler concerns environmental group

  07-04-2018 21:00
  
  "We're not seeing proportional investment to ensure people act as positive stewards of those environments."
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Thunderstorm and heavy rain - Vancouver Sun

  07-04-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
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  WEST VANCOUVER, BC., January 21, 2018 -- Walkers and cyclists brave the weather on the seawall near Dundarave Park. Nick Procaylo / PNG. Share Adjust Comment Print. VANCOUVER, B.C. – A thunderstorm and heavy rain are in the weather forecast for ...and more »
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Thunderstorm and heavy rain

  07-04-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – A thunderstorm and heavy rain are in the weather forecast for Saturday in Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada says the region can expect up to 30 millimetres of rain and winds gusting up to 80 km/h. And it doesn’t look like the heavy rain is going to ease up over the weekend. The agency says another 10 to 15 millimetres of rain will fall overnight, and then up to 10 millimetres is expected on Sunday. Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
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• Makeover: New mom needs a change in hairstyle

  07-04-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Angela Lum is a new mom and esthetician. The 33-year-old has had the same haircut since 1997 and was ready for a change.
  Angela has very thick and naturally black-brown hair. She has never coloured it before but is considering a subtle change in the future. In the mean time, she wanted a haircut that is easy to manage and that could be tied back into a ponytail.
  I shampooed her hair using KMS Moist Repair — Shampoo and Conditioner, to replenish moisture and repair damaged hair. I sect
  
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• B.C.'s hockey community mourns loss of fellow players in Saskatchewan bus crash

  07-04-2018 19:26 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s hockey community is mourning their fellow players killed in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan Friday.
  Fourteen members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team, including the coach, were killed and 14 others injured when a truck collided with a bus carrying the junior hockey team to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan.
  Jordan Bogress, 18, of Delta, played with the Broncos for three months from September to November. He said in that short time the players became like
  
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• Summer Camp for Kids

  07-04-2018 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  Erin Jeffery from YoYoMama shares her pick of the best summer camps across the province
  
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• Fertile Future’s Evening of Hope

  07-04-2018 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  Dr Roberts and Nicole Keay explain why the Fertile Future’s Evening of Hope is such an important fundraising event
  
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• Cherry Blossom Dessert

  07-04-2018 19:19 via globalnews.ca
  Delicious cuisine and recipes cooked up on the Saturday Morning News. Pastry Chef Nikki Tam from Minami makes a cherry blossom inspired dessert – Yuzu No Bake Cheesecake
  
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• Seymour River footbridge to be built this summer

  07-04-2018 18:00
  
  "It will be good to get people going west and east again,” said superintendent of environmental management for Metro Vancouver
  
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• Hey Ocean! splashes back with Hurt of Happiness

  07-04-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hey Ocean! drifted apart in 2014. Ashleigh Ball (vocals/flute), David Beckingham (vocals/guitars) and David Vertesi (vocals/bass) had a decade together touring, recording and releasing three, full-length albums and four EPs. 
  With the exception of performing at the yearly #SingItFwd to raise awareness about the importance of youth musical education and funds for the ongoing work of the St. James Music Academy, which supports over 300 children on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the ban
  
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• Vancouver Canucks gameday: Henrik and Daniel's final farewell - The Canuck Way

  07-04-2018 16:05 via thecanuckway.com
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  Vancouver Canucks gameday: Henrik and Daniel's final farewell
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  On Saturday night, the Vancouver Canucks most beloved sons, Henrik and Daniel Sedin, will play their final NHL hockey game. I still can't believe I just typed those words. Like so many Vancouver Canucks fans, I still haven't fully processed what ...
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• An actor with Down Syndrome and a playwright walk into a theatre...

  07-04-2018 15:52
  
  Anvil Centre show on April 7 "questions who in our culture we allow to speak, and who we expect to listen.”
  
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• Hong Kong murder riddle unfolds in Gateway Theatre

  07-04-2018 15:31
  
  Actor who plays Mr. Chin in Kim’s Convenience stars in drama that solves two mysteries: a murder and someone’s unclear identity in a colonial period.
  
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• Location, craftsmanship key to appeal of Edgemont Walk

  07-04-2018 15:09 via vancouversun.com
  Tarcisio Boffo founded Boffo Properties, a landscaping and construction business, more than 50 years ago and the company is now run by his children Daniel and Flavia. Although Boffo senior is officially retired, he is still involved when it comes to the landscaping of the company’s residential developments and hand picks all the plants – his lifelong passion.
  Boffo Properties’ latest project is Edgemont Walk, a collection of 24 row townhomes on the corner of Edgemont Boulevard
  
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• Sold (Bought): Coquitlam home has access to resort-style amenities

  07-04-2018 15:06 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  117 — 1150 Kensal Place, Coquitlam
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 818 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $476,000
  Listed for: $639,000
  Sold for: $620,000
  Sold on: Jan. 21
  Days on market: 11
  Listing agent: Gurv Saran at Amex Broadway West Realty
  Buyers agent: Rod Bahari at Sutton Group – West Coast Realty
  The big sell: Polygon’s Windsor Gate is a master-planned community that enjoys a park-like setti
  
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• What they were thinking?: Metro Vancouver politicians show the perils of setting your own salary - CBC.ca

  07-04-2018 15:01 via cbc.ca
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  What they were thinking?: Metro Vancouver politicians show the perils of setting your own salary
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  The head office for Metro Vancouver, the regional government for 21 municipalities in the Lower Mainland. (Peter Scobie/CBC). 0 comments. It took Greg Moore, the chair of Metro Vancouver, six days to go from defending his board approving retroactive ...
  
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• Book review: Fear of a nuclear winter remains

  07-04-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  By Daniel Ellsberg
  Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney
  2017, $40, 420 pages
  What would you do if you were a young professional working at your dream job, and you discovered your employer was lying to the public, promoting a disastrous foreign war and steadily expanding a weapons program that threatened to destroy human life on earth? In 1971, that was the dilemma facing Daniel Ellsberg, a brilliant young ac
  
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• The Home Front: Furniture designers respond to a changing work landscape

  07-04-2018 14:38 via vancouversun.com
  Furniture makers are responding to changes in where and how people are working, says EQ3 creative director Thom Fougere, with offices increasingly being designed to feel more like home — relaxed, comfortable and open.
  “The landscape of how we work, and even what kind of work, generally, we do is changing,” says Fougere. “And I think a lot of people are seeing that change as well, so yeah, there’s a lot more working from home, and the home is kind of turning int
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Can the Sedins frustrate the Oilers one last time?

  07-04-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  So, what will Henrik and Daniel Sedin do for an encore after Thursday’s incredible storybook-finish at Rogers Arena?
  Yes, that’s right, the twins have one final NHL game remaining before their retirement party officially commences. It would take a miracle to match the electric atmosphere and Hollywood-like drama of Thursday’s 4-3 overtime victory at Rogers Arena, but it will be interesting to see what the good folks with Hockey Night in Canada have to say about No. 22 and
  
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• Mike Smyth: Pot tops agenda, with ICBC looming large, as legislature resumes

  07-04-2018 12:00 via theprovince.com
  B.C. has some of the toughest drunk-driving laws in Canada and now the province is considering severe penalties for drugged driving, too.
  It’s all part of the province’s preparation for legal marijuana this summer and it has Solicitor General Mike Farnworth — the government’s point man on pot — talking tough.
  “We must give police more tools to remove drug-impaired drivers from the road,” Farnworth said, insisting police will have the power to issue 90-da
  
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• Scholarships created in memory of a beloved Vancouver science teacher - The Globe and Mail

  07-04-2018 11:02 via theglobeandmail.com
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  The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. close panel. close panel. Privacy Policy · Terms & Conditions. Scholarships created in memory of a beloved Vancouver science teacher. Paul ...
  
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• Kimberley Dynamiters take KIJHL championship

  07-04-2018 07:48 via globalnews.ca
  The Kimberley Dynamiters won 5-3 over the Revelstoke Grizzlies Friday night. The Dynamiters took the best-of-seven series 4-2 in Game 6.
  
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• Outdoor pursuits featured at Kelowna tradeshow

  07-04-2018 07:45 via globalnews.ca
  The third annual B.C. Interior Sportsman Show opened up Friday in Kelowna. More than 5,000 attended the event in 2017, prompting organizers to expand the show at the Capital News Centre. Doris Maria Bregolisse has details.
  
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• Third Sedins: Daniel and Henrik’s 10 best Canucks linemates

  07-04-2018 06:41 via theprovince.com
  It goes without saying that the greatest linemates Daniel and Henrik Sedin ever had were one another. The twins had an incredible chemistry during their remarkable 18-year career, which is probably to be expected when you play the majority of your professional hockey alongside the person with whom you shared a womb. The best chemistry is forged in utero.
  Unfortunately, there were only two boys in mama Sedin’s womb, leaving the twins one man short of a complete line. And surprisingly, despi
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Apr 6

  07-04-2018 06:02 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, April 6, 2018.
  
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• B.C.’s last fire season set destructive records. Things don’t look good this year either

  07-04-2018 05:02 via globalnews.ca
  "We're looking at potentially increased fire activity through the southern half [of B.C.] and then up along the Alberta-B.C. border toward the Northwest Territories," said an analyst.
  
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• Opinion: If we want to keep eating fish we need to farm it — responsibly

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Salmon Farmers Association recently held community meetings in Campbell River and Nanaimo — two centres of our industry in this province. Over and over again we heard passion for the role B.C.’s salmon farms play in protecting wild salmon and helping feed a hungry world, but also frustration with the misinformation about our industry being perpetrated by a small, but loud, group of opponents.
  Here is one quote from a meeting that stood out: “I come from a long line of
  
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• Opinion: Glue traps a cruel way to control rodents

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Aneurin Bevan, a minister in the Britain’s postwar Labour government, once described his Conservative party opponents as “lower than vermin.”  It was perhaps the ultimate insult, considering that vermin are, as one dictionary puts it, “noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals collectively, especially those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control.”
  But vermin is just a label for wildlife, usually rats and mice, whose efforts to survi
  
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• Letters: Support teachers, not education bureaucracies

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  Teacher unrest is never far from the political surface in B.C., and now in U.S. states as teachers walk out to get attention for social professional justice.
  I spent 35 years as an educator, largely in leadership roles as a school principal, supervisor of instruction and as a Chief Superintendent of Schools. I witnessed many of the inconsequential reform efforts usually led by bureaucrats in lonely offices in high towers in central places. External reforms to restructure, reorganize, c
  
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• Editorial: Confiscatory taxes aren't the answer to housing woes

  07-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  It turns out solving the housing-affordability crisis is more complicated than the NDP government may have thought. 
  Its inaccurately named speculation and school taxes, along with an increase in the foreign-buyers and the property transfer taxes, have generated a torrent of complaints and the government has responded with tweaks, adjustments and exemptions. 
  But the damage can’t be undone. Against a backdrop of rising interest rates, a cooling economy and more stringent mortgage
  
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• British Columbians really love their incandescent light bulbs

  07-04-2018 04:59 via globalnews.ca
  Despite best efforts to phase out the inefficient bulbs, people just can't seem to give them up, according to a new survey.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Apr 6

  07-04-2018 04:34 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, April 6, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Study says OD patients don’t need hospitalization

  07-04-2018 04:19 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Young Afghan woman shot in face by husband talks about her new life in Vancouver

  07-04-2018 04:15 via globalnews.ca
  Shakila Zareen, 22, is starting her new life in Vancouver, five years after being disfigured by a horrific crime. Rumina Daya reports.
  
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• Would-be Langley homeowners lose court fight

  07-04-2018 04:15 via globalnews.ca
  A group of would-be homeowners in Langley have lost their court battle against the developer who sold them pre-construction homes. Jill Bennett explains why that could cost them.
  
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• Second sexual assault in Surrey this week

  07-04-2018 04:15 via globalnews.ca
  Surrey RCMP are issuing a warning after a second disturbing sexual assault, this one on a child. John Hua reports.
  
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• Editorial board: Uber says it's ready for B.C.

  07-04-2018 04:14 via vancouversun.com
  After a wave of highly-publicized scandals and turmoil among its leadership, Uber says it has done some soul-searching and is ready to work better with local governments including B.C., which plans to bring in ride-hailing later this year.
  Rob Khazzam, Uber Canada’s new general manager, and Michael van Hemmen, public policy manager, sat down with The Vancouver Sun’s editorial board on Friday to discuss the ride-hailing app firm’s hopes to improve transportation in B.C.
  The prov
  
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• British Columbians clinging to incandescent light bulbs

  07-04-2018 04:11 via globalnews.ca
  BC Hydro says the majority of British Columbians are still using mostly energy-inefficient incandescent bulbs. Ted Chernecki reports.
  
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• It takes an army to turn convention centre into HQ for TED Talks 'community'

  07-04-2018 03:36 via vancouversun.com
  It takes an army to build the TED Talks community inside the Vancouver Convention Centre.
  The elaborate main theatre alone requires a crew of 225 — framers and finishing carpenters drawn from across the province — to assemble the “pop-up” structure of 8,000 Douglas-fir-timber components, a process that takes 154 hours, “give or take.”
  “It’s a pretty crazy schedule, but it seems to happen every year somehow,” said Patrick Wallain, the Vancouve
  
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• New forecasts say summer of 2018 could be busy fire season

  07-04-2018 03:20 via globalnews.ca
  Government scientists say based on early forecasts, the summer of 2018 could be another very active season for forest fires. Linda Aylesworth reports.
  
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• Foodie Friday: Spice up spring with this coconut curry bowl recipe

  07-04-2018 03:13 via globalnews.ca
  With the gloom of winter gone, it's time to break out some bright, flavourful recipes.
  
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• Seniors fight back against NDP’s new luxury home tax

  07-04-2018 03:06 via globalnews.ca
  Seniors who own homes worth more than $3 million say they’re being unfairly squeezed by the NDP’s new tax on so-called “luxury” homes. Nadia Stewart reports.
  
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• BC Coroners Service probes fatal incident at New West worksite

  07-04-2018 03:03 via globalnews.ca
  The BC Coroners Service and WorkSafeBC are investigating a fatal incident at a worksite in New Westminster.
  
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• Lose your insurance for distracted driving? Critics say it could bankrupt people

  07-04-2018 02:47 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. is considering voiding the insurance of drivers who crash while distracted, just like drunk drivers. Critics say it could be more trouble than it's worth.
  
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• Canucks’ Adam Gaudette wins Hobey Baker as best NCAA men’s player

  07-04-2018 02:32 via theprovince.com
  Northeastern forward Adam Gaudette celebrates his goal against Boston University at the Beanpot tournament on Feb. 12. He was named this week the winner of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award for the top NCAA hockey player of the season.
  Vancouver Canucks prospect Adam Gaudette may be through with college hockey, but college hockey isn’t through with him.
  On Friday, Gaudette became the first player from Boston’s Northeastern University to win the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given annually
  
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• Whistler honours legacy of woman killed in avalanche

  07-04-2018 02:23
  
  "She was a total gravitational force. Once you were in her little circle, she kept you there," says friend of Lisa Korthals
  
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• Movie Minute: Lean on Pete

  07-04-2018 02:23 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia movie critic Dana Gee and Arts Editor Aleesha Harris look at the new coming of age movie Lean on Pete. The film about a boy and horse goes well beyond that relationship and shows the struggling side of America. The film also stars Steve Buscemi and Chloë Sevigny. Be warned though this is a sad tale. 
   
  
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