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• High school 'robot athletes' compete at BCIT in advance of VEX Robotics World Championships

  08-04-2018 23:59 via vancouversun.com
  “Like Meccano, with motors and brains” — that’s BCIT instructor Jason Brett describing the two robots competing on a field in front of him.
  Built and programmed using VEX technology by teams of high school students, the robots are attempting to stack coloured cones and move goals over obstacles to score points. The team that accumulates the most points in two minutes will be declared the winner.
  As one of the robots tries to pick up a cone, it becomes lodged between the m
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Private clinics are the necessary but unwanted foster child of health care

  08-04-2018 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  Listening to B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix denounce private health care clinics last week, you might have forgotten they were fostered more than 20 years ago under the previous NDP administration.
  He vigorously promised the NDP will activate changes to the Medicare Protection Act on Oct. 1, changes the Liberals introduced in 2003 but didn’t proclaim. The aim: to stamp out “extra-billing.”
  The act allows fines of up to $20,000 when doctors and clinics “extra bill.”
  
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• Kinder Morgan halts Trans Mountain pipeline expansion amid B.C. opposition

  08-04-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  Kinder Morgan said it would consult with stakeholders with a view to reaching agreements by May 31 that "may allow the project to proceed."
  
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• Chinese Restaurant Award Winner – Memory Lane

  08-04-2018 22:10 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Raymond Wu, from Chinese Restaurant Award-winning restaurant Memory Lane, makes one of his signature dishes – three cup chicken
  
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• Artist takes 20,000-km journey along B.C.-Alberta pipeline route. Both sides are wrong, he says

  08-04-2018 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  "I actually think we can have our cake and eat it," said artist Andrew Wright.
  
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• B.C. hockey fans mourn with Humboldt in prayer vigil, jersey tributes

  08-04-2018 21:26 via vancouversun.com
  A candlelight and prayer vigil will be held in Ladner on Sunday evening, in solidarity with the grieving community of Humboldt, Sask.
  The vigil comes after a collision on Friday between a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team and a semi-trailer. The team was on its way to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan at the time of the crash. A total of 15 people, including the team’s coach and captain, were killed.
  Organized by Pastor Danny Stebeck, the vigil is open to all i
  
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• Unbearable grief at sister's death leads woman to set up therapy group

  08-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  There are no classes in dealing with grief. We don’t even like thinking about grief. But losing someone you love is one of the few things we all have in common.
  Cate Hayes spent weeks in painful mourning last fall — self-medicating and bed-ridden — after her sister was killed. Now, she’s trying to help others cope.
  Her sister Karen Coulter, mother of an eight-year-old, died shortly after takeoff in October while piloting a helicopter, just before her 47th birthday. T
  
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• Vancouver weather: Rain and wind to kick off the week

  08-04-2018 20:37 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: April 8, 2018 – Sunday’s weather will see rain, wind and more rain. Are you surprised anymore?
  There will be a brief break from the rain Sunday but it returns later in the evening and likely overnight as well. That continues into the week and into next weekend.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Rain ends late in the morning, bringing clouds and a 60 per cent chance of showers. Windy with a high of 11.
  Tonight: Cloudy with a 60 per cent change of showers, low of 8.
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• Ladner hockey player mourns the loss of former Humboldt coach and teammates

  08-04-2018 20:35
  
  Ice Hawks forward Jordan Bogress began the junior hockey season in Saskatchewan playing for the Broncos
  
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• Canadian Badminton Championships

  08-04-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Daisy Lee and Frank Price tell Jay about the Canadian Badminton Championships and its return to BC.
  
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• Ask an Expert – Oral Health Month

  08-04-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Your questions answered by the Global BC experts. Dr Bruce Ward from BC Dental Association answers viewer questions and shares his advice on oral health.
  
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• Coquille Fine Seafood

  08-04-2018 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Jack Chen from new Vancouver restaurant Coquille Fine Seafood shares his recipe for mackerel crudo.
  
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• BCHL – Brent Mutis

  08-04-2018 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  Brent Mutis from the BCHL reflects on the hockey world reaction to the Humboldt tragedy
  
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• Fear for safety of elderly with dementia prompts Silver Alert call

  08-04-2018 20:00
  
  Search and rescue volunteer promotes petition calling on the federal government to take action
  
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• Indigenous women tell inquiry of abuse, call for systemic change

  08-04-2018 19:52
  Vancouver's hearings on Sunday were the last that were scheduled for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, though others will continue to testify in private.
  
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• Friends mourn the victims in the Humboldt bus crash

  08-04-2018 16:59 via globalnews.ca
  Hockey coach Barret Kropf speaks to Geoff Hastings on the loss of his friend Darcy Haugan, the Head Coach of the Humboldt Broncos.
  
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• Will there ever be a Great Wolf Lodge in Squamish?

  08-04-2018 16:05
  
  Now that Surrey is out, company won't say if Squamish is in or out of its plans for $150-million waterfront resort
  
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• Bylaw will help preserve Britannia Beach heritage buildings

  08-04-2018 16:00
  
  District adds several landmark facilities such as the old general store to heritage register
  
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• Oilers defeat Canucks in Sedins’ final NHL game

  08-04-2018 14:54 via globalnews.ca
  The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Vancouver Canucks in a shootout on Saturday night.
  
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• Residential school history centre to share survivors' accounts, educate public

  08-04-2018 13:00
  The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre opening Monday at UBC will house archival photos, maps and personal accounts of survivors.
  
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• The Provies: The Sedin thing and The End.

  08-04-2018 09:23 via theprovince.com
  BEST LOVE STORY
  With that, things will never be the same.
  Not in Vancouver where the hockey franchise just jumped off into a Sedin-less abyss.
  The game played out like an afternoon New Year’s Day party you had to peel yourself out of bed to get to after the night of your life.
  Oh, it was fun, and appropriate.
  It just isn’t the story we’ll be retelling many, many times for the rest of our lives.
  That’s the one which begins with:
  “One night in Vancouver…”
  
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• Canucks Post Game: The fond farewell, the Hobey Baker, the Jokinen favour, the bus tragedy

  08-04-2018 09:12 via theprovince.com
  Points to ponder as Henrik and Daniel Sedin somehow found some resolve, or maybe some Red Bull, to turn a mild, plodding finale to the season — and their stellar Hall of Fame worthy careers — into a wild fast-paced finish before the Canucks fell 3-2 to the Oilers in a shootout:
  SEDINS WORTHY OF WARM SENDOFF
  The Oilers presented the twins with a parting gift of fine wine in the Edmonton room. They then shook their hands in an emotional post-game ritual. The Sedins also got a video tri
  
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• Oilers 3, Canucks 2 (SO): A tragedy, no triumph, no more stellar Sedins

  08-04-2018 07:10 via theprovince.com
  EDMONTON —  How do you lighten heavy hearts?
  You don’t. Maybe one day. Maybe some day. Not Saturday.
  For players and coaches and anyone in the hockey world, the tragic Humboldt Broncos bus crash Friday that claimed 15 lives shook everyone to the core. The Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers had a season-finale to play, but their thoughts were more than 600 kilometres away in the Saskatchewan city of 6,000 shocked and grieving residents.
  Some players got choked up. Some got mis
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Aiding Special Olympics, Out in Schools, CP

  08-04-2018 07:00 via theprovince.com
  Pink and green
  TD Regional vice-president Kelly Lam and Grant Minish, the LGBTQ2+ market manager, recently filled client glasses with wine and cocktails at a posh party to mark the coming of spring, thank affluent leaders from the queer community for their continued patronage and prospect new ones.
  They also took the opportunity to fill the coffers of Out in Schools, an education initiative using film and video to facilitate student discussions on homophobia, transphobia and bullying.
  A longtime
  
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• Ed Willes: Canuck playoff team by 2019 that’s not in fantasy league? Our dream template

  08-04-2018 07:00 via theprovince.com
  There might be more difficult assignments, but now that they’ve mapped the human genome and calculated the age of the universe, we’ve been left to solve the next great mystery in our world: How can the Vancouver Canucks be a playoff team by the 2019-2020 NHL season?
  This, as you may know, is not an easy question to answer. Greater hockey minds than ours have tackled this problem and produced 28th-, 29th-, and, before Saturday’s season finale in Edmonton, 26th-place teams.
  In th
  
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• RSL 2, Whitecaps 1: Real flips the script on dominant Caps

  08-04-2018 06:08 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Whitecaps came into Sandy, Utah and played the perfect home game. Real Salt Lake played the perfect Whitecaps’ game.
  In a Major League Soccer matchup where both teams swapped their usual roles, the Claret and Cobalt struck for a first-half, injury-time strike against the run of play, earning a 2-1 victory at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday night.
  The Caps (3W-2L-1D) failed to match their best start in history, while Real (2-2-1) broke through for their second win of the season.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Apr 7

  08-04-2018 05:51 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 for Saturday, April 7, 2018. For the latest news and video, go to globalnews.ca/bc.
  
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• Pat Carney: Artificial intelligence versus human intelligence

  08-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’m done with artificial intelligence. I will settle for human intelligence. Preferably smart human intelligence.
  Our access to human intelligence — let’s call it HI — is increasingly limited in our online environment. Humans have become a rare species, accessed only after hours wasted waiting on the phone.
  Recently, I applied online for the Power Smart rebate on my new, energy-efficient heat pump that purrs away on the wall in my Saturna Island home. The rebate can be as
  
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• Al Etmanski: We can close the poverty gap of Canadians with disabilities by fixing Registered Disability Savings Plan

  08-04-2018 05:00 via theprovince.com
  Canada’s Registered Disability Savings Plan is the first poverty-fighting tool for people with disabilities in the world. This remarkable example of federal/provincial/territorial co-operation, which was created in 2008, has already changed the lives of more than 150,000 Canadians with disabilities.
  Unfortunately, the RDSP is only reaching 29 per cent of those eligible. And due to restrictions imposed by the Canada Revenue Agency, it is not available for many other Canadians with disa
  
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• Science World Art project looks at all sides in B.C. pipeline debate

  08-04-2018 04:51 via globalnews.ca
  A photographer spends two years chronicling those impacted by potential expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline from oil workers to fishermen. As Paul Johnson reports, Andrew Wright’s visual essay was inspired by battles over the British coal industry in the 1980’s.
  
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• Hockey bus crash in Saskatchewan claims 15 lives

  08-04-2018 04:51 via globalnews.ca
  Emotions running high as details emerge of a Friday night bus crash that claims the lives of 15 members of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team. Kristen Robinson reports.
  
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• First Nations leaders rally hundreds of anti-pipeline protesters on Burnaby Mountain

  08-04-2018 04:51 via globalnews.ca
  First Nations and environmental protesters say they are willing to be arrested to prevent the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline through B.C. Julia Foy has more on the activists who are promising a long, hot summer.
  
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• B.C. connections to deadly Humboldt bus crash

  08-04-2018 04:51 via globalnews.ca
  Deadly Humboldt bus crash impacts the hockey community across the country, including right here in BC. Nadia Stewart has more on what’s being done to support the survivors.
  
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• Douglas Todd: An inside view of Canadian Sikhism

  08-04-2018 04:46 via vancouversun.com
  Who are Canada’s Sikhs? That question has arisen this year following political controversies involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in India and New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh.
  Canadian journalists have been reporting on how Trudeau and his entourage, including Sikh MPs, invited a convicted Sikh terrorist to diplomatic galas in India, and how early videos have been uncovered linking the NDP leader to Sikh activists and militants pressing for a separate homeland in India ca
  
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• Humboldt grapples with Broncos tragedy

  08-04-2018 04:42
  
  The town's community newspaper reports on how the community coping with the loss of 15 lives in hockey team's bus accident
  
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• Will there be a $70 million casino hotel in Ladner by 2020?

  08-04-2018 03:00
  
  Gateway hopes to convince public and politicians that casino complex is right for junction of highways 17A and 99.
  
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• B.C. hockey moms plan jersey day to remember Humboldt bus crash victims

  08-04-2018 02:15 via globalnews.ca
  They hope the jersey day campaign will spread throughout Canada and beyond. They've already received messages of support from across North America.
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – April 7

  08-04-2018 01:59 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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• Former Humboldt Bronco Jordan Bogress reflects on bus tragedy

  08-04-2018 01:53 via globalnews.ca
  Former Humboldt Bronco Jordan Bogress talks to Jay Janower about the fatal crash that claimed the life of several of his ex- teammates.
  
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• Canucks to honour Humboldt Broncos at tonight's game

  08-04-2018 01:30
  
  Players' helmets will sport logo of Saskatchewan team that lost 15 people in Friday's bus crash.
  
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• Ripped away: Indigenous youth describe aging out of care

  08-04-2018 01:11
  
  Three youth share stories at Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry, illustrating just how far the ripple effects from mistreatment of thier communities can travel.
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Sedins’ final farewell shaken by Humboldt Broncos’ tragedy

  08-04-2018 01:02 via theprovince.com
  EDMONTON — Henrik Sedin’s stoic stance and solemn summation said it all.
  Two days ago, the hockey world applauded in unison as the Vancouver Canucks’ captain and twin brother, Daniel, combined to cap the home-ice portion of their remarkable Hall of Fame careers with a perfectly-scripted overtime goal.
  On Saturday, the NHL veterans were shocked and saddened and struggled to address Friday afternoon’s a tragic bus that claimed the lives of 15 players and personnel of the Hu
  
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• Giants d-man Kannok Leipert mourns friend and former teammate

  08-04-2018 00:01 via theprovince.com
  Alex Kannok Leipert’s four little words were like a punch in a gut.
  “He didn’t make it,” the Vancouver Giants rookie rearguard said Saturday morning.
  Kannok Leipert, 17, was talking about the Humboldt Broncos’ bus crash Friday and Adam Herold, who had been Kannok Leipert’s teammate and frequent defence parter last season with the Regina Pats Canadians, one of the top teams in the Saskatchewan Midget triple-A league.
  According to various reports, Herold was one
  
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